Cloning

My time as family members, and trying to be their clone, reminded me of Dolly the Sheep and the controversial breakthrough in science back in 1996 when Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.  Dolly was important not only because of the breakthrough in science, but because she captured the public imagination.  The idea that there might be an exact copy of oneself somewhere in the world is a theme that has been pursued in science fiction many times, and the prospect that it might be possible to clone a human being excited a lot of speculation and interest.  

Dolly the Sheep

From this idea of cloning I looked into artists who used this theme within their work.  

Mauro Perucchetti

"12 years ago I created a body of work inspired by the dilemma between cloning and religion, and cloning and medical ethics.  I decided to use the jelly baby as an impersonation of cloned making.  I was trying to capture the ambiguity that could be present in a cloned being.  On first glance, they seem very sweet, but from certain angles they can look slightly sinister, especially on a large scale."